How to hunt for a host

Manish Check this out 28/08/2008

Many people ask me about which is the best hosting service ? Where should we host our website ? and such questions. Let me tell you how to find a good host. First you need to know and list your exact requirements. Your target visitors and how many pages will they see on an average once they are on your website. What is the content of your website ? Will you be having simple text with few images on each page or will you having huge photo galleries and videos ? Does your website require database ? Which one ? Is your website using php or asp ?

So once you have answer to these questions you atleast know what sort of webhosting you require, dedicated or shared, Linux or windows ? Now you have to see which hosting provider is the best that provides the features required by you. To hunt that down you can look for websites that compare various hosting services and do hosting rating. One of such website is webhostingrating.com. They have independent customer rating of top 10 web hosting companies. Their host rating system is based on the customer satisfaction, affordability, reliability, uptime and techical support.